Friday, February 24, 2012

Muñequitos Monasticos: Les Moniales Chartreuses

The Carthusian nuns were founded around 1145 by the Prior of the Chartreuse, St. Anthelm, from a community if nuns in Prébayon. Historically the nuns lived a more cenobitic lifestyle than the monks, but today share the same eremitic nature of their brothers.